Fly the Xbox Skies with Konami

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The first big Xbox title out of Japan is announced. First screens.

By IGN Staff

With GameStock come and gone, Konami announced their first Xbox title, which will be shown at next week's TGS. Air Force Delta II has seen a few other installments in the series, the latest of which was a subpar effort on the GB Color. There was also a DC version, which obviously didn't look nearly as good.

A good portion of the article is "Oh, look how real it is!" However, there is a list of planes, including the F/A 18 Hornet, S-37 Berkut, A-10 Thunderbolt II, F-14 Tomcat and the IDF Administration Chinkuo, a supersonic Taiwanese jet developed in cooperation with the US. The plane uses an F-16 as a base, but includes some other features, such as twin engines.

The game will include a variety of mission types that weren't found in the DC version. The TGS version will apparently feature a typical mission-clear based level, but the final version is expected to have a variety of different things. There will be stages that take place over land and sea as well. There is also the possiblity that planes not currently in use can be used as well. While this isn't elaborated upon, the article says that it is a possibility that some "science fiction" elements could be placed in the real world. I've been waiting for an Independence Day-like assault game. There is no confirmation if the story is linked in any way to the original DC title.